Improvement in harness



TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONOERN:

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NATHAN T. HEALY, OF MEDINA, NEW YORK.

Letters PatentNo. 70,4341, dated November 5, 1867.

IMPROVEMENT in HARNESS.

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Be it known that NATHAN T. HEALY, of Medina, in the county of Orleans, and State of New York, have inventeda certain new and useful Improvement in Harness for Horses; and I do herehydeclare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this spe'cication.

Figure 1 i's a perspective view of the rear portion of a harness.

Figure 2, an enlarged longitudinal section in plane of line x Cc, g. 1.

Figure '3, a .view showing a dierent adjustment of the hip-straps.

Like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures;

My invention consists in forming the hip-straps', connecting the back-strap with the breaching, without intermediateibuckles, and passing the same loosely through a bearing, and using on thei'baol-,strap a suitable -arrangement for taking up and letting out the hip-straps or lowering the breeching.

' As represented in the4 drawings, A is the hack-strap, connecting 'with the saddle, and B is the breeching, passing around the buttocks of the horse. To the end of the back-strap is attached abearng', C, and to the opposite end of this bearing is attached a crupper, D, of usual form. With the breechng are connected thehip-straps E E, corresponding with those ordinarily used, except that nolintermediate-buckles are'employed.

These straps pass up through the bea-ring C, andconncct with the backsstrap either by a buckle, a, iig. 1, which adjusts in any of a set of holes, b b, or with the buckle c, ordinarily used in adjusting theback-strap. By this means the said hip-straps can be taken up' or let out at pleasure.

The great advantage of this arrangement consists in the avoiding of buckles in the hip-straps E, which constantly catch the horses tail, and also thc reins. This is a source of damage to the horse, and also a constant annoyance in holding the reins. In my arrangement the straps are perfectlysmooth, and therefore can never catch the tail or reins. Besidesgthis, the adjustment of both straps is accomplished by a single movement of said straps forward or back, whereas in ordinary harness each strap has to be adjusted separately by an intermediate buckle.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

Forming the hip-straps E without intermediate buckles, and 'passing said straps loosely through the bearing C, and-providing a suitable adjustment of the same on the back-strap, as herein set forth.

In witness whereofI have hereunto signed my naine in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

NATHAN T. I-IEALY.

Witnesses CHARLES E. CLARK, JOHN D. HENION. Y 

